Last weekend
Mar. 28th, 2011 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bouteillebleuSpinemeet on Sunday was good - I'd forgotten how much fun it is to get together with the other people in the group and just chat, either about things in general or about Maelstrom. (Hazard of going to player events on my own.) Looking forward to event 1.
Got more sleep over the weekend, so am feeling better about work and have clearer ideas about what I'm doing.
Sonata Arctica gig on Friday was good as well. Musician's earplugs continue to hold up well (they're these ones - cheap, reusable, and even work with my ears that can't cope with in-ear headphones, so I'd recommend them to anyone looking for something better than disposible ones).
I, er, spent most of the opening acts reading a book I'd started on the train into London, as the O2 Academy Islington has sofas on its mezzanine level and they were quite comfortable. Found a spot half-behind one of the ceiling pipes that gave me a view of the stage when Sonata started playing, which had the bonus feature that I couldn't see the strobe light directly. Then listened and sang along to my heart's content - the music is singable and the band make their concerts fun.
Set list was as follows:
* Flag in the Ground
* The Last Amazing Grays
* Juliet
* Replica
* Blank File
* As If The World Wasn't Ending
* A long story about Tony Kakko's first car and how he bought it when he was a teenager, leading into...
* Paid In Full
* Another story about Tony Kakko's first car, including a car crash and underwear full of safety glass, leading into...
* Victoria's Secret (he'd mentioned "so, that underwear thing" at the start of the story, so we had some warning :)
* Interlude while the rest of the band rocked out - I assume Tony went to rest his throat for a bit, or went to the loo or something
* The Misery
* Full Moon... no, wait, the first several bars of Full Moon and then a ridiculous Eminem impression from Tony with his hood up
* then actually Full Moon
* In Black And White
* Caleb
I think at this point they went off stage and came back for an encore:
* Don't Say A Word
* and finally, of course, Vodka
Got more sleep over the weekend, so am feeling better about work and have clearer ideas about what I'm doing.
Sonata Arctica gig on Friday was good as well. Musician's earplugs continue to hold up well (they're these ones - cheap, reusable, and even work with my ears that can't cope with in-ear headphones, so I'd recommend them to anyone looking for something better than disposible ones).
I, er, spent most of the opening acts reading a book I'd started on the train into London, as the O2 Academy Islington has sofas on its mezzanine level and they were quite comfortable. Found a spot half-behind one of the ceiling pipes that gave me a view of the stage when Sonata started playing, which had the bonus feature that I couldn't see the strobe light directly. Then listened and sang along to my heart's content - the music is singable and the band make their concerts fun.
Set list was as follows:
* Flag in the Ground
* The Last Amazing Grays
* Juliet
* Replica
* Blank File
* As If The World Wasn't Ending
* A long story about Tony Kakko's first car and how he bought it when he was a teenager, leading into...
* Paid In Full
* Another story about Tony Kakko's first car, including a car crash and underwear full of safety glass, leading into...
* Victoria's Secret (he'd mentioned "so, that underwear thing" at the start of the story, so we had some warning :)
* Interlude while the rest of the band rocked out - I assume Tony went to rest his throat for a bit, or went to the loo or something
* The Misery
* Full Moon... no, wait, the first several bars of Full Moon and then a ridiculous Eminem impression from Tony with his hood up
* then actually Full Moon
* In Black And White
* Caleb
I think at this point they went off stage and came back for an encore:
* Don't Say A Word
* and finally, of course, Vodka
